Stirling (Temporal Keyword)

IMAGE Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

This is the famous birdman tablet found at Cahokia. Dates to around AD 1200. Image from www.lithiccastinglab.com

PROJECT Santa Fe Institute.

This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.

IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

These are Long-Nosed God copper maskettes from Meppen Mound site, Illinois, dating to AD 1050-1200. Tim Pauketat believes these objects are derived from Tlaloc imagery. Photo courtesy of Pictures of Record, Inc.